Solitary, because in spite of our best attempts, we are alone. The
mind is a singular place, and though companionship is searched for,
often it is in vain, and other times it winds up fruitless or worse,
hostile.

I have to admit I'm not that familiar with philosophers. Could you
help me out a bit here? What exactly is it about philosophy that made
you want to study it? I mean, how does it make you feel?

Can you imagine yourself going to Paris to study philosophy? The city
of lights, action happening all day and night long. Can't you just see
in your mind the Eiffel Tower piercing the blue sky? Can you see
yourself walking along the banks of the Seine, feeling the spirits of
philosophers past penetrating deeper and deeper into your innermost
soul?

Do you remember how you felt when you met someone who understood your
deepest feelings? [point at self] Wouldn't there be an incredible bond
between you, as you feel those same feelings rushing back to you now?

I used to think these feelings were coming from above me, but now I
think these feelings are coming from b'low me. [point to crotch]

Let's not forget what de Tocqueville's said:
"[O]ne set of men endeavor by innumerable artifices to penetrate, or to appear to penetrate, among those who are above them."
(Democracy in America, Part III, Ch. 2)

Well, I read your response and was considering whether you had a
point, when I devised a way to test your hypothesis. Over the course of
seven nights I used the pick-up lines printed above in various singles
bars in my area. The results are as follows.
Total number of propositions: 111
Total number of scores: 2
While a 1.80% success rate does not seem, at first blush, to be
overwhelmingly impressive, when it is compared to the 2.12%
(5,116,588,302,144,262,876,380 propositions to
107,960,013,175,243,946,692 scores) success rate of the cumulative total
of all pick up lines ever used throughout all of history to date (or,
possibly more to the point, my own personal rate of 1.79%), it appears
that you did not give these lines the credit they deserved.
As for the sex garnered by these lines, it was, admittedly, quite bland.
The first encounter ranks close to dead last among my 51 sexual
experiences. The second I place somewhere in the 36-42 range. I
suppose you can draw your own conclusions from the data I have compiled;
I for one view the philosophical pick-ups as rousing successes.
There is one last piece of evidence I failed to disclose.
Collateral damage incurred:
Face slappings: 74
Drink dousings: 26
Kicks to the groin: 3
Kicks to the groin neccessitating emergency room treatment: 1
I stand by my conclusions.